gross

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• adjective Exclusive of deductions; total: synonym: whole.
• adjective Unmitigated in any way; utter.
• adjective So obvious or conspicuous as to cause or heighten offense: synonym: flagrant.
• adjective Brutishly coarse, as in behavior; crude.
• adjective Disgusting or offensive.
• adjective Overweight; corpulent.
• adjective On a large scale; not fine or detailed.
• adjective Broad; general.
• noun The entire body or amount, as of income, before necessary deductions have been made.
• noun A group of 144 items; 12 dozen.
• transitive verb To earn as a total income or profit before deductions.

from The Century Dictionary.

• After large game: as, to fly gross: said of a hawk.
• To engross.
• Great; large; big; bulky.
• Unusually large or plump, as from coarse growth or fatness: applied to plants or animals, and implying in men excessive or repulsive fatness.
• Coarse in texture or form; coarse in taste, or as related to any of the senses; not fine or delicate.
• Coarse in a moral sense; vulgar; indelicate; broad: applied to either persons or things.
• Remarkably glaring or reprehensible; enormous; shameful; flagrant: as, a gross mistake; gross injustice.
• Thick; dense; not attenuated; not refined or pure: as, a gross medium; gross air; gross elements.
• Not acute or sensitive in perception, apprehension, or feeling; stupid; dull.
• Whole; entire; total; specifically, without deduction, as for charges or waste material; without allowance of tare and tret: opposed to net: as, the gross sum or amount; gross profits, income, or weight.
• General; not entering into detail.
• noun The main body; the chief part; the bulk; the mass: now chiefly or only in the phrase in gross or in the gross (which see, below).
• noun A unit of tale, consisting of twelve dozen, or 144. It never has the plural form: as, five gross or ten gross.
• noun Thick soft food, such as porridge, etc. Halliwell.
• Relatively large; specifically, visible to the naked eye; megascopic; not microscopic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The main body; the chief part, bulk, or mass.
• noun The number of twelve dozen; twelve times twelve
• noun (Law) an advowson belonging to a person, and not to a manor.
• noun twelve gross; one hundred and forty-four dozen.
• noun by the quantity; at wholesale.
• noun (Law) See under Common, n.
• noun in the bulk, or the undivided whole; all parts taken together.
• adjective Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
• adjective Coarse; rough; not fine or delicate.
• adjective Not easily aroused or excited; not sensitive in perception or feeling; dull; witless.
• adjective Expressing, or originating in, animal or sensual appetites; hence, coarse, vulgar, low, obscene, or impure.
• adjective Disgusting; repulsive; highly offensive.
• adjective Thick; dense; not attenuated.
• adjective Great; palpable; serious; vagrant; shameful
• adjective Whole; entire; total; without deduction; ; -- opposed to net.
• adjective (Law) the loan of money upon bottomry, i. e., on a mortgage of a ship.
• adjective (Law) that kind of average which falls upon the gross or entire amount of ship, cargo, and freight; -- commonly called general average.
• adjective the total of the receipts, before they are diminished by any deduction, as for expenses; -- distinguished from net profits.
• adjective the total weight of merchandise or goods, without deduction for tare, tret, or waste; -- distinguished from neat weight, or net weight.